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| − | This gives a quick guide to editing on the wiki. Click on the edit tab to see the markup language underneath, then go back before you change anything!
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| − | == Text ==
| + | *[[Demonstration pages]] (for practice} |
| − | You can use the buttons just above the edit box - play with them and see! The function is then followed by a dash, then it shows what to type to generate that function. Any further explanation is then given afterwards in parentheses.
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| − | *''Italics'' - <nowiki>''Text''</nowiki>
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| − | *'''Bold''' - <nowiki>'''Text'''</nowiki>
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| − | *A simple [[internal link]] - <nowiki>[[Pagename]]</nowiki> (no http or anything) | |
| − | *An [[Organic chemistry|internal link]] (piped) - <nowiki>[[Pagename|words to link to that page]]</nowiki> | |
| − | *An [http://en.wikipedia.org external link] - <nowiki>[URL words to link]</nowiki> (copy/paste the URL, then leave a space, and then type the words you want to appear on the link) | |
| − | *To sign on a talk page <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>
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| − | *A header, use <nowiki>==Header==</nowiki> for big headers, <nowiki>===Header===</nowiki> for smaller ones.
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| − | ==Images==
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| − | [[Image:Example.gif|thumb|right|<nowiki>[[Image:Example.gif|thumb|right|Caption]]</nowiki>]]
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| − | [[Image:Example.gif|250px|right|<nowiki>[[Image:Example.gif|250px|right|Caption]]</nowiki>]]
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| − | *Recommended formats: SVG, PNG, GIF (Black & white or simple diagrams only), JPG (colour pictures).
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| − | *For structure drawing, we recommend the ACS settings in ChemDraw, IsisDraw or Chemsketch. Save the file as a TIFF, then convert that to PNG or GIF. Unfortunately the structures on this server don't seem to scale well, but hopefully we can resolve that problem in time.
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| − | *To upload a picture, follow the "upload file" link on the left, browse till you find your picture, then enter it. Be sure to add copyright & source!
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| − | *To place an image in the text, put the image name in square brackets, then put in the formatting information separated by "pipes" (the <nowiki>|</nowiki> symbol), ''viz.'':
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| − | :*Size - 50px (pixels) for a small icon, to about 600px for a page-wide reaction scheme.
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| − | :*Thumbnail - if you want this type in thumb in place of (or as well as) the size.
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| − | :*Position - put in left, center or right
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| − | :*Caption - type in the text you want to appear under the thumbnail. Simple images (not thumbnails) can't easily have captions.
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| − | *Note that in wikis (unlike regular HTML), you can't (easily) use an image as a hyperlink to anything other than the image file.
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| − | [[Image:Example.gif|400px|thumb|center|<nowiki>[[Image:Example.gif|400px|thumb|center|Caption]]</nowiki>]]
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| − | For more help see on Wikipedia the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_tutorial picture tutorial], the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Images images page] and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Extended_image_syntax image syntax page].
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| − | More to follow.....
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| | ==See also== | | ==See also== |
| | [[Help:Useful chemistry sites]] | | [[Help:Useful chemistry sites]] |
| | [[Category:Help pages]] | | [[Category:Help pages]] |
